Cryptography & Cybersecurity

Blogs, articles and briefs on all things cryptography & cybersecurity - this is where the good stuff is (let's talk about decentralization, trust - or zero trust, data protection and more)

News O365 Security: You Get What You Pay For…. US Treasury & Commerce Hacks Expose Microsoft It was made aware to the public via media reporting that a group of sophisticated attackers had gained unauthorized access to internal US Treasury and Commerce Department systems [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/13/us-treasury-hacked-group-backed-by-foreign-government-report] . Now, we don’t have the full technical details of how these compromises

Aaron Turner • 5 min read

Compliance COVID-19: How Your Organization Can Stay Compliant & Secure While Working From Home According to the World Health Organization, COVID-19 is now officially a pandemic [https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/11/814474930/coronavirus-covid-19-is-now-officially-a-pandemic-who-says?t=1584016069908] . The impact of COVID-19 struck close to home for me this week as at least two attendees at the annual RSA Conference fell ill to

Aaron Turner • 5 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity What The Bezos Phone Hack Means For Business Executives This article was originally published on Silicon Luxembourg [https://www.siliconluxembourg.lu/what-the-bezos-phone-hack-means-for-business-executives-in-luxembourg-and-worldwide/] on Feb. 4th, 2020 For the last several months, many of us in the mobile technology security community have heard rumors about Jeff Bezos’ iPhone. Not that he had access to a special new model or something

Aaron Turner • 4 min read

Compliance Your “HIPAA Compliant” Email & Messaging Apps are Being Targeted & Hacked The need for improved HIPAA compliant technologies is becoming more apparent. The number of data breaches in the healthcare industry has increased steadily for the past four years. From 2015 to 2018 alone, healthcare breaches increased [https://www.hipaajournal.com/study-reveals-70-increase-in-healthcare-data-breaches-between-2010-and-2017/] by more than 26%. And while cyber attacks are

Cecilia Clark • 7 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity If Cybersecurity is the “Biggest Threat” to Western Powers, Why is there NO Cybersecurity Zone at DSEI 2019? Over 35,000 people will stroll the aisles at DSEI this year. They expect exhibitors, more than 1,600 of them, to amaze with new, innovative solutions for the greatest problems in defence. The world’s biggest defence contractors and service providers will be there demonstrating their latest and most

Cecilia Clark • 10 min read

Compliance A Bank’s Biggest Challenge: Data Security Compliance There have been more than 500 bank failures in the past decade. More than 500 failures. Of them, most were smaller community banks that couldn’t recover from the effects of the Great Recession. Since the economic downturn, the surviving banks are regaining strength and financial stability, but many are

Cecilia Clark • 6 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity Hackers Are Targeting Community Banks. Here’s What You Need to Know. “Our money is safer under the mattress than it is in the community bank!” We all sort of laughed at my neighbor’s conclusion to the philosophical discussion about current banking cyber crimes. About five of us were tossing around our perceptions of the cyber readiness of financial institutions when

Cecilia Clark • 7 min read

News Does the Raytheon Technologies Merger Threaten National Security? Last month, aerospace giant United Technologies and defense leader Raytheon announced their merger. The new company, Raytheon Technologies Corp, will be the second largest aerospace-defense entity in the world. And while most of the aerospace-defense world reacted with varying degrees of surprise, some are looking at this merger a bit

Cecilia Clark • 8 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity How Hackers Are Spying on US & Canadian Special Forces The United States military has over 2 million uniformed members. When we think about that number, it’s easy to envision a massive fighting force positioned all over the world defending the country and its allies. In reality, however, a mere 2% of that force – an elite group known as

Cecilia Clark • 7 min read

News What You (and Your Boss) Need to Know About the Facebook + WhatsApp Merge Things have changed. There was a time in the not-so-distant past when companies and organizations felt confident and secure in communicating via email. As technology developed, many of those entities supplemented their communications by adding text messaging to send quick updates or transmit time sensitive information. These days, most enterprises

Cecilia Clark • 12 min read